Word: phi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...economics major at the University of California, Bob McNamara made Phi Beta Kappa, finished his courses with a spectacularly high grade of 288 points out of a possible 315. From Cal, he moved off to Harvard Business School for his master's degree in business administration, returned to the West Coast to work briefly for an accounting firm-and to marry Former Classmate Margaret Craig-and skipped back once more to Harvard, where he taught for three years. As he traveled, he carried with him a reputation as a precise, studious, even strait-laced sort of man who could...
...someone with previous Pentagon wound stripes to help him through the interservice booby traps. The two men-the driving Midwestern production man and the polished Eastern intellectual-have hit it off so well that McNamara now characteristically begins an opinion with the phrase, "Ros and I." Ros Gilpatric made Phi Beta Kappa at Yale (1928), got his law degree there (1931 ) and in time became a leading corporation lawyer, as a partner of Wall Street's Cravath, Swaine & Moore. During World War II, he ironed out production-contract problems. In 1951 he plunged into the Pentagon as Assistant Secretary...
...Hefner, "they wouldn't sell. People would buy sheer smut. We, on the other hand, are Taste City." Fundamental Things. Taste City has many flavors, and they can all be savored at Hefner's Playboy Club. All the customers have membership keys, the closest thing to a Phi Beta Kappa from Yale, and no one except an occasional sick accountant seems to notice that all this costs $50 a key and $1.50 a drink. The place is aquiver with girls dressed as rabbits, the subtle symbol of Playboy. They wear more or less what field rabbits wear...
...Radcliffe Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa initiated eight recently elected juniors and 11 seniors at its spring dinner last night...
Publicity literature emphasizes, "...a girl need not be a 'Marilyn Monroe' nor does she have to be a 'Phi Beta Kappa.' The Board of Judges will seek someone who is a 'happy medium' between these standards...